St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-01-23
B0REALIS RESTS.
Carnival Directors Have Decided to
Olose the Palace Grounds
On Sunday.
And the Palace of Borealis Rex
Will be as Still as the
Grave To-Day.
The Carnival is Half Way Past and Has
Been Success Greater Than Was
Expected.
Ohildren's Day Drew Thousands of Little
Folks to the Ice Kings
Home,
Where They Were Given a Holiday
More Pleasant Than the Old
Folks Ever Have.
sports on the R1nks--Crowds at the
West Side Annex Carnival
Notes.

The ice palace will be closed to-day and
and there will be no illumination of the
streets tonight. Such was the decision OF
the board of directors yesterday. The SUBJ
Ject was carefully Investigated and argued
pro and con by the gentlemen constituting
the board, and it was their decision that
every gaze and entrance OF the carnival
grounds should be barred to-day. 1t was
argued by some members of the board that
the grounds should remain open for the
benefit Of Minneapolitans and the residents
of other neighbOring towns and cities, hay
ing Sunday trains, who could obtain no
other opportunity to visit st. Paul except
OF Sunday; but this was deemed an insult
ficient preteXt for violating the sanctity of
the Sabbath day by a majority of the board,
and so it was decided that the ell
frances to the palace of King BOrealiS
should be closed to the public to-day
But the visitors to st. PauIs carnival will
find no lack Of entertainment to-day. The
eightysiX churches of the SANITY City will
be opened to them. and they will receive a
hearty welcome within their portals. And
St Paul has Other attractions than the
palace Of ice. and there are many places OF
interest to be visited. The falls of Min
nehaha are as beautiful in winter as in
summer, and several trains pass them every
day, Sundays not excepted. A view Of the
city from Dayton'S bluff, ST. Anthony hill
and Summit avenue is well worth seeing,
and the ice palace itself can be viewed
from beyond the outer walls of the park
Third street. which has been brilliant every
night during the past week, will be
illumined tonight only by an occasional
gllmmer from an electric light and the be-
dimmed luster of the gas jets upon the
street corners but when again lighted to-
morrow night the grand illumination will
seem more gorgeous than ever before.
IT IS HALF GONE.
To-day marks the middle Of the carnival
season and by reason of the fact that the
palace grounds are closed forms strong
line Of demarcation between the two weeks.
During the past week. beginning even a
day or two back into the previous one. the
city has been not only full but running over
with strangers. All the hotels have been
doing land-Oftice business. Not only has
every room been occupied, but every avail
able spot in the house is supplied with cots,
and public halls have been utilized for Sleep
ing purposes, while restaurants have fed all
the people they could possibly acc m no.
date. In addition 10 this the private resi-
dences are full, as people who have rela-
tiyeS or friends III town have availed them
selves of the carnival time to make visit.
The universal verdict has been that the first
week of the carnival is a success. The i'm
menSe procession of uniformed clubs on
Wednesday utterly astonished people who
were visiting here. The storming of the
palace on Thursday surpassed in grandeur
anything ever seen in the coEn-
try, and the display of win
ter equipages on Thursday afternoon
cannot be eXcelIed, it is safe to say, in any
city Of America, and formed one of the most
pleasing sights Of the whole carnival But
the best is to come. The carnival has been
planned so that it will not grow less aud
less, but greater and greater. This week
there will be curling bonspel occupying
several days. On Tuesday will be pro-
cession of juvenile carnival clubs, prizes
being given TO those making the best turn
outs. On Wednesday Will be procession
of grOteSque and burlesque costumes and
rigs, and i'll the evening fancy dress en-
tertainment on the skating Kinks in the
grounds. On Thursday there will he pro-
cesSiOn of blO0ded dogs in competition for
prizes and in the evening the second Storm
ing of the palace, more grand than the
first. On Friday there will be daylight
competitive parade by snow shoe toboggan,
ski and skating clubs. Six hundred dollars
will be awarded as prizes for tie most
elaborate floats. On Saturday Children's
day will be reDeated on a magnificent scale